Celebrity Big Brother SPOILER: 'I've faked it': Ashley James finally reveals her Geordie accent... as she admits changing her voice after being taunted by the posh girls at school

Her father recently exposed her humble northern roots, admitting that she has had to feign 'Queen's English' in order to forge a career on television.

But Ashley James revealed her posh accent was developed well before her fleeting stint in reality show Made in Chelsea as she confessed to changing her dialect in order to fit in at her posh school.

Scenes set to air during Friday night's installment of Celebrity Big Brother show the 30-year-old model open up about her altering voice in a heart-to-heart with housemates Maggie Oliver and Shane Jenek.

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Fake it till you make it! Ashley James revealed her posh accent was developed well before her fleeting stint in reality show Made in Chelsea as she confessed to changing her dialect in order to fit in at her posh school

Ashley - who hails from a small town in Northumberland - admitted: 'I was born a Geordie,' prompting Maggie to ask her if she'd had elocution lessons.

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'No, I've faked a posh accent,' she confessed. 'Truth, swear on my life.

'This is how I speak now but I faked it so when I first started school I'd be like "Alreet man? How ya doin? I'm Ashley James."

'And then everyone was like, "Oh my God. Have you heard the new Geordie girl? Go on, say something."

'I faked it': Scenes set to air during Friday night's installment of Celebrity Big Brother show the model open up about her altering voice in a heart-to-heart with housemates Maggie Oliver and Shane Jenek

Candid: Ashley - who hails from a small town in Northumberland - admitted: 'I was born a Geordie,' prompting Maggie to ask her if she'd had elocution lessons

'So I'd be like, "What d'ya want us to say like?" "Oh my God, do the 'like'! The like's hilarious!"'

She continued: 'And then they'd make me like spell words. They'd be like, "Spell geography!"

'So I'd be like, "G, E, O, G..." "No, no, no, just do the 'O', just do the 'O'."

'So eventually, I was like, eventually I was like I'm just gonna speak like everyone else.'

'She's proud of her northern roots!': Unbeknownst to Ashley, her father recently outed her humble beginnings

Unbeknownst to Ashley, her father outed her humble beginnings during a recent interview with Heat magazine.

'I'm sure she's proud of her northern roots,' Geoff told the magazine last week. 'But working on TV, she has to speak the Queen's English.'

He added: 'I left school at 15 to start milking cows on a farm. I had to work night and day to send Ashley and her siblings to school, but it was worth every penny.'

Where it all began: Ashley shot to fame after appearing on Made in Chelsea in 2013, which documents the exploit of those living in one of London's most affluent areas